A shady spot from the sunlight and beautiful birds are just two reasons you'll want to plant this tree in your yard. Not to ...

Jan. 26). I moved to the Pacific Northwest from the South, where small ornamental trees covered the cityscape and provided no usable shade. It is my fervent hope that Portland is guided in the ...

From dense, shrublike forms to slender, vase-shaped small ... Northwest and beyond. Profuse crimson buds that open to sparkling white flowers densely clothe this slow-growing, nearly columnar ...

a flowering tree ... here in the Pacific Northwest. The good news is, with proper placement and good growing conditions, once a crape myrtle begins to flower, the tree will continue to produce ...

Another key benefit of many types of flowering trees: They burst into bloom in late winter or early spring, precisely when you just can't take another dreary day. When choosing which small ...

Less traditional options, like the Loropetalum, can also be trained into small flowering trees. Spring is here. How do I know? The fringe trees are in full bloom. Nothing signals the arrival of ...

The city of Seattle has postponed its plans to chop down the flowering cherry ... a lot of native deciduous tree choices suitable for street trees in the Pacific Northwest, unfortunately.

Many small ornamental trees brighten the Chicago region with their spring blooms: redbuds, crabapples, serviceberries, magnolias, wild plums and many more. Cherries, not so much. The Japanese ...

large and small, will find this book very useful, for many people fail to get the best results from their shrubs and trees owing to their indifferent knowledge of pruning. All ornamental shrubs ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. An excellent choice for a small ornamental tree with year-round interest is the kumquat or one of its hybrids, which do not eclipse eight feet in ...